The president previously said the project would only use private dollars. Sen. Angus King called the spending ‘ridiculous and unnecessary.’
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Who’s endorsing Graham Platner now, and who still isn’t backing him?
With Gov. Janet Mills out of the Democratic primary, an array of Maine Democrats came out Thursday and Friday in support of Platner’s bid to unseat U.S. Sen. Susan Collins.
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Platner pulls out of Senate debates after Mills ends campaign
Graham Platner’s campaign said he will focus instead on defeating Republican Sen. Susan Collins in the fall.
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Collins, Senate Republicans uphold Trump order on immigrant work authorizations
The order ends a practice that allowed people to keep working until the government could process their renewal applications.
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Collins touts bill that would cap monthly insulin prices at $35
The bipartisan bill introduced Wednesday is the latest attempt by lawmakers to regulate insulin prices.
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Collins says $200B request to fund war in Iran is ‘higher than I would have guessed’
The reported request has not yet been submitted to Congress, and Collins said details are still unknown.
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Susan Collins opposes effort to limit Trump’s Iran war powers
Maine’s senators weighed in on a resolution Wednesday that was mostly a symbolic rebuke of Trump after the U.S. and Israel opened a war against Iran.
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As Trump defends Iran war, how will Angus King and Susan Collins vote on it?
Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, said he is leaning toward supporting a measure that would curb military action in Iran. Will Republican Susan Collins join him?
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Some of Maine’s members of Congress will skip Trump’s State of the Union
President Donald Trump’s past speeches to Congress have seen Democratic lawmakers skip them, get kicked out or walk out early.
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Angus King and Susan Collins are not budging on disagreement over ICE reforms
A short-term Department of Homeland Security funding measure is tied up by Democratic and Republican disagreements over immigration enforcement.